Originally Posted by
Sharklet_321
I guess opening hours and lighting are easily fixed so if an LCC was interested you can bet the airport will tell them it’s 24hrs and lighting will be upgraded.
Sorry, you guess wrong.
H24 ops are never going to happen due to restrictions on operating hours specified in a Section 106 Agreement.
CAT 3 lighting would be extremely expensive to install, and make absolutely no business sense as RWY 20 operates with a CAT 1 ILS and RWY 02 operates with non-precision IAPs.
Due to obstacles off both ends of the runway nothing anywhere near CAT 3 minima is possible.
RWY 02 IAP minima could be improved if UK government regains access to the EU EGNOS satellite constellation (which they had until May 2021), or comes up with something to do the same job. That would then permit LPV minima to be restored for the current 02 RNP IAP.